THE WAY TO RISE EARLY.

Colonist, Volume XXX, Issue 5017, 28 September 1887, Page 3

THE WAY TO RISE EARLY.

Thompson and "Simms live opposite each other in a narrow street. They were going od a fishing excursion the other day, and as they wanted to be sure to wake in time to catch- the early train, they ran a bit of clothes line across the street, in at the second story windows, and each tied an end to his leg, so that if one awdke Hfe other would immediately feel a pull. The scheme was an excellent one, and we know of do reason why, under ordinary circumstances, it should' not have worked well. But about five> • o'clock that morning, some labourers stopped- in front of Simms' for the purpose ef erecting a telegraph pole on end. Bat unfortunately it slipped and came down with tremendous force upon the clothes-lines. : - . Mrs Simms was very much mi? prised to see Henry go over the foot of the bed and shoot, feet foremost out of the window; but even she was not more amazed than Mrs Thompson was, when Archibald performed the the same feat They met in the middle of the street clustering, a 9it were, round the pole, but each with a leg broken. They awake themselves now with alarum clocks. It is safer and less exciting. '